Pioneer D514 User Manual

When you select 

STEREO or DIRECT, you will

hear the source through just the front left and
right speakers (and possibly your subwoofer
depending on your speaker settings). Dolby
Digital and DTS multichannel sources are
downmixed to stereo.

STEREO/DIRECT (STEREO on the remote
control) for stereo playback.
Press repeatedly to switch between:

•

STEREO – The audio is heard with your

surround settings and you can still use the
Midnight, Loudness, and Tone control
functions.

•

DIRECT – Bypass all effects and surround

settings so that the audio remains as close to
the source audio signal as possible.

If you switch on Midnight listening, Loud-
ness, or the Tone controls when 

DIRECT is

selected, the receiver automatically switches
to 

STEREO.

Selecting this mode allows you to hear a virtual
back channel through your surround speakers.
For example, you can choose to listen to
sources with no surround back channel
information (for example, 5.1 encoded material)
with emulated 6.1 encoding (

VSB ON).

Sometimes the material may sound better in
the 5.1 format for which it was originally
encoded. In this case you can simply switch it
off (

VSB OFF).

edly to switch the virtual surround back
channel on or off.
Note that this is only possible when you’re
listening in surround sound (

STANDARD or

ADVANCED SURROUND should be selected).

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